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May 12, 2016
On a beautiful Thursday afternoon in Berkeley, fifty-seven graduates were honored at the GTU's 2016 Commencement Exercises. This year’s commencement ceremony was held on May 12, at the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary's Chapel of the Cross. Replay the live video stream of this year's commencement.
The GTU Class of 2016 included twenty-three graduates receiving the Doctor of Philosophy degree, two receiving the Doctor of Theology, twenty-six receiving the Master of Arts degree, and six receiving the Master of Arts with a concentration in Biblical Languages. See a list of...

On May 25-26, 2016, the GTU will be holding a two-day symposium celebrating the scholarship of Dr. Judith Berling and her 29 years of service as a faculty member and administrator with the GTU. You can watch a live video stream of conference sessions using these links:
Wednesday, 10:00 am - 12:00: "Impacts of Theories of Judith Berling" (Live Video)
Wednesday, 1:30 pm - 3:30: "Interreligious and Cross-Cultural Pedagogy" (Live Video)
Wednesday, 4:00 pm - 5:00: Surjit Singh Lecture by Philip Wickeri (Live Video)
Thursday, 10:00 am - 12:30: "Boundary-Crossing Approaches and...

In this Issue:COVER STORYBeauty that Empowers by Suzanne E. Miller
FEATURESLetter from the PresidentThe GTU Creates a Doctoral Program for the 21st Century by Arthur Holder
The GTU Honors Judith Berling by Emily Wu
My Mentor, My Teacher, Judith Berling by Sophia Park
From Mosques to Museums by Doug Davidson
The GTU Celebrates the Center of Swedenborgian Studies by James Lawrence

by Stuart J. Moore
The world is literally at our fingertips. Pull out your smart phone <tap tap tap> and you can Google huge libraries of information, see the world thanks to YouTube, and even converse via discussions boards, Facebook, Skype, and text. This ability to access information has revolutionized our culture, particularly how we view education.
Jody Passanisi, a.k.a. Jacqueline Pearce, (M.A. '05) with her colleague Shara Peters astutely observes in a post at Scientific American, “[E]ducated people were those who knew a great deal of information about one or many subjects...In this '...

The August 2016 edition of the GTU’s Insight email newsletter is out, featuring short stories about…
The Sylvia Ludins Art Exhibition at the GTU Library
A Remembering of DSPT’s Father Michael Morris
A Cover Feature about the GTU in In Trust Magazine
BJRT’s Special Issue honoring Arthur Holder and Judith Berling
Naomi Seidman’s New Book, The Marriage Plot
Read the August 2016 Insight here. Each month, Insight draws attention to top news from the GTU and its member schools, academic centers, and affiliates. Use the form to the right to have each monthly edition emailed directly...

Thursday, February 21, 2013, 7:00pm
People of diverse religious backgrounds encounter each other daily in coffee shops, hospitals, classrooms, and around the dinner table. What might these encounters teach us about ourselves, our neighbors, or about God?
Jennifer Howe Peace (Ph.D. '05) is Assistant Professor of Interfaith Studies at Andover Newton Theological School (ANTS) and serves as director of CIRCLE (the Center for Interreligious and Communal Leadership Education), a joint venture of ANTS and Hebrew College. She co-edited, along with Or Rose and Greg Mobley, My Neighbor's Faith (Orbis,...

by Emily Wu
from Currents Fall 2015
It is an understatement to say that Dr. Judith Berling is a pillar of the Graduate Theological Union. In her 28 years of service as faculty and administrator within the consortium, she has been instrumental in fostering GTU’s culture of inclusiveness and appreciation for diversity.
As a scholar of Chinese religions, Dr. Berling has led many GTU students on their explorations in Daoism and Confucianism and, more importantly, the religious world where these traditions coexist and mingle. Her seminal work on the Ming dynasty religious teacher Lin Chao-en (...

Dear GTU students,
On May 25-26, 2016, the GTU will be holding a two-day symposium celebrating the scholarship of Dr. Judith Berling. The planning committee for Learning as Collaborative Conversation: Celebrating the Scholarship and Teaching of Judith Berling is calling for poster and multi-media presentation proposals. The content of the proposed poster or multi-media presentations must be related to Dr. Judith Berling’s academic areas of interest--pedagogy, comparative religion, or theory of interdisciplinary studies. Proposals (no longer than 500 words) must specifically describe how the...

An institution of higher learning unlike any other, the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley brings together scholars of the world’s diverse religions and wisdom traditions to advance new knowledge, share inspiration, and collaborate on solutions.